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Water cooling question...

I'm at uni now, learning about why AMD chips are superior to Intel ones so I can become a more effective flamer.

We pay a fixed fee for our water, and for that we can use as much as we want. I was just thinking of rigging up some kind of system to tap water from my sink (hee-hee!) into my PC, through a water-based cooling rig (probably just one block on the CPU at the moment) and then back out into the sink. It's about an 8m round-trip.

Can you think of any immmediate difficulties I might encounter? I can't really think of any at the moment.

Well other than wasting water for no good reason is socially unacceptable, I'm sure the Uni will take a dim view if they find out, and if you intend to leave it running unattended or 24/7 expect to buy a few CPU's as they fry everytime the water supply is shut off while they look for the leak.

My GF is a tree hugger and I should email her this thread! She'd love to give you a lecture on conservation and saving the environment. But it would probably just get her all worked up and then I'd have to put up with it for the next couple days.

CONDENSATION.... you are going to have lots of it, cold tap water is... well ..... cold... at least cold enough to get you some, so just so you know and don't ask me how I know that, I have never ever, in my hole life ever tried what you are going to try... I promise... .... oooooKKKKK maybe once or twice, but it was a long time ago... another thing you will notice, while playing with the flow-rate.... (tap water has plenty of pressure to play with).... more is indeed better! just be careful with the pressure.....

There was some bloke over ontomshardware with the same prob, until recently all was fine, but now the weater (and also the water) is getting colder, he's getting condensation probs.(ill post link later- going to work in a minute)
anyway, a tank and pump are the best option if you ask me.

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Strangely enough, the cold water here isn't very cold at all, even on freezing days. It's probably because the plumbing is so bad and the hot and cold pipes run uninsulated next to each other in some places. I've a feeling from looking at your graph BladeRunner that condensation won't be a problem.

Ultimately I guess the risk of the water being cut off is too great. I really can't be bothered with thinking of an alternative cooling method given such a circumstance.

Wait till I get my XP + thermal-diode compatible mobo. Then we'll see some wardrobe waterproofing, of that I have no doubt.